William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
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I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
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Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.
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They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.
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The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
